Transport Commissioner Mahesh Zagade’s removal yesterday from the crucial post within eight months is said to be a fallout of the growing friction between ministers and the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers in charge of state departments.

Many see Zagade’s shifting as indicative of what the ministers, both from the BJP and Shiv Sena, expect Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to do when they have a problem with the officers they work with on a daily basis.